This blog post covers how to use Microsoft’s built-in Azure Service Health personalized dashboards and external services to stay informed about and take action to mitigate Azure issues that could affect your applications.
How to monitor Azure service issues
You may already be familiar with the Azure Status Page which provides a global view of the health of all Azure services across all Azure regions. Azure Service Health helps users stay informed and take action on incidents and planned maintenance via a personalized health dashboard, customizable alerts, and expert guidance. In addition to Azure Status Page, Azure Service Health displays issues that affect you and provides in-depth insights into all service incidents and maintenance as well as alerts and shareable updates and RCAs.
There are three types of events that Azure Service Health tracks:
- Azure service issues – problems in Azure services that affect you in real-time.
- Planned maintenance – upcoming maintenance events that can affect the availability of your services in the future.
- Health advisories – health-related issues that may require your action to avoid service interruption.
Get started with Azure Service Health
While one can always view the complete set of information in the dashboard, the best way to stay informed and take action is by setting up alerts. This way you’ll be notified on the health-related issues as soon as they are published via the channel of your preference.
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